Category Archives: apps

I don’t know if you realize this or not but facebook will only show about 18% of your likers or friends any message you post.

Yep.

Facebook is blocking 82% of your posts from people who OPTED IN to see your posts. Piss offing isn’t it?

Well, there are ways around this problem. And since Facebook also owns Instagram and Tumblr is super viral, your solution to this problem will apply to all of the above websites.

Upload a picture with HUGE text.

When you upload a picture, Facebook shows it to about 30% more people. When you upload a picture to Instagram or Tumblr that has small text on it or no text at all, people might smile and move on. But if you have big HUGE wall to wall text draping your image, you can actually get people to click through to your site and buy or read or what ever your site wants them to do.

If you have a blog that’s at least 1 year old with more than 20 posts, you have something of value. You may not think you do if you’ve never been able to generate sales or revenues from your blog. But life is full of things we underestimate.

You’ve heard of the expression, “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure.”

Mentioning someone in your blog or just adding them to an older blog post only takes 90 seconds to do. But for the person being mentioned, your one blog post could mean the difference between being on page 2 of Google under a search and jumping to page 1. That’s a huge difference in the number of potential clients, customers, users, and readers he gets to stand in front of.

Now, if you have thousands and thousands of regular readers and subscribers and followers on Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, Google+ etc… then being in your blog is worth even more.

It took me 3 hours to find a video to send to my blogging team on how to move an app from your computer to your iphone 3 iphone 4 iphone 5 or any iphone. I got so fed up with the process of looking for a decent video that I decided to create my own horribly filmed video.

But it gets the job done and fast.

First thing you’re going to need if you’re working with a developer version that’s NOT already in the itunes app store is to send your UDID to the developer so that the programmer can register your iphone and authorize it for testing. Once you’ve done that… just follow the steps here:

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Sure, the iPhone 5 is going to change those numbers a bit. But not much. It looks almost identical to the iPhone 4. And both Samsung Korea and HTC have big plans for 2013 and 2014. As a note, LG Korea is the company that makes all the iPhone retina displays. With Steve’s passing on, LG’s loyalty looks like it might shift away from Apple.

2. Tech Like the Retina Display Technology Is Not “Owned” Owned By Apple

Programmers for Android and the Jelly Bean OS are generally far more experienced. Apple iOS apps need to be programmed in Objective C. Before the iPhone came out, a very small slice of the programming world knew Objective C. Android, on the other hand, lets you build apps in Java and C++ — even a form of rails will work.

These are languages that most programmers are comfortable with. They are experienced in developing code in these languages. They’ve been through all the bugs and they’ve come out the other side. If you’ve never worked with an iPhone App developer, chances are, you’re in for a painful ride. We carefully screen our programmers and about 14 out of 15 iPhone Programmers we hire can’t finish the jobs we give them.

3. Android Programming Has a Rich Experience and Talent Base

Apple screens apps very tightly. You might actually build an app that never gets allowed into the AppStore. Seriously. This has happened to the cleanest well built apps. Just google it if you don’t believe me.

Android lets almost anybody in.

4. Android Apps are Easy to Get Approved in the Market

Since, Android lets almost anybody into the Marketplace, most of the apps are crap. All you have to do is build a good looking app that functions well and you’ll instantly stand head and shoulders above everybody else. it’s much easier to get noticed in Android than iPhone.

5. Android App Competition is Lower than Apple

Finally, marketing. Marketing your iPhone app is tough. The most successful iPhone apps had about a $45,000 marketing budget. Not so with Android apps. Since Android is powered by Google, all the apps in the Market are easy to find and search for. Use this to your advantage. Change your app name every week. Then, get bloggers to mention your app. Google (via Google seo company) cross references web popularity with your Market visibility. And by changing your name, if you don’t get any downloads for one name this week, a different name can get you thousands of downloads next week. Apple search doesn’t work that way.

6. You Can Game The Market

Finally, Experience and network. The guys who code in JAVA and C++ just have a much bigger support network and experience breadth. These languages have been around long before the iPhone was released. And so if you’re going to build your first app, or your tenth, you should probably start with the platform that has the most support.

If you’ve spent a BMW worth of money to build your fancy sparkling new iPhone app or Android app expecting for “them to come,” I know how you feel.

You’re feeling crickets.

Well, you’re not alone, 99.63% of all apps in the app market have less than 100 downloads. So how do you become a part of that exclusive 0.37% group? How do you build your userbase? How do you market your iPhone app and Android app?

Ideas?

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